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re: If an IV bag is just water, why am I paying so much for it?
Posted on 12/20/14 at 11:25 pm to Isabelle
Posted on 12/20/14 at 11:25 pm to Isabelle
quote:no it's a great idea seriously.. Pedialyte is expensive and don't work nearly as well.
Not a good idea at all! Seriously!
I would get up in the morning and while driving to the parade set up, I'd just hang the IV bag from the oh shite handle in the car and let the IV flow in my arm. By the time I got parked I would be sans any hangover.
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Posted on 12/20/14 at 11:32 pm to SuperSaint
If it works as well as you say, all of your hangover problems are the result of dehydration. Toss the pedialyte and drown yourself in powerade.
Posted on 12/20/14 at 11:50 pm to SouthBendBob
Omg this thread is just too rich.
Posted on 12/21/14 at 2:55 am to LEASTBAY
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the IV fluid is actually pretty cheap
This. The saline itself is relatively cheap. The catheter and the tubing are also pretty cheap. The cost of the nurse "constantly monitoring" fluids being continuously run into your veins, along with the stretcher in the ER you are occupying are the bitch.
Posted on 12/21/14 at 7:01 am to SouthBendBob
The real question is why are you going to the ER for being drunk and hung over
Posted on 12/21/14 at 9:09 am to SuperSaint
cause you gotta help pay for all the ones that they have to give away
Posted on 12/21/14 at 9:54 am to SuperSaint
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Speaking of this, where could I purchase some saline bags and iv's???
Your vet might have some expired ones he might sell to you.
You could always dumpster dive behind the hospital. they usually throw away one or two a day that are not completely used.
Posted on 12/21/14 at 9:28 pm to MeridianDog
The bags of "water" given in the hospital aren't just water. It is a sterile saline solution with a similar concentration/tonicity found in your blood stream. 9 grams NaCl mixed in 1 liter of sterile water. Higher and lower concentrations result in fluid shifts sbd electrolyte derangements which can cause death.
Infusing a nonsterile solution into your blood stream is absurd.
Infusing a nonsterile solution into your blood stream is absurd.
Posted on 12/21/14 at 9:32 pm to SouthBendBob
Please tell me that you went to the ER for a hangover!
Posted on 12/21/14 at 9:40 pm to SabiDojo
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Omg this thread is just too rich.
Threads like this are why the OT never fails.
Posted on 12/21/14 at 9:43 pm to SabiDojo
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Omg this thread is just too rich.
If he was that "rich", wouldn't he have a personal doc that provides him care while on the road or at his house?
Posted on 12/21/14 at 9:45 pm to theronswanson
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You would die if they put straight water into your blood stream
but you can put straight vodka in your blood stream..
Posted on 12/21/14 at 10:06 pm to SouthBendBob
You're an idiot and, apparently, a drunkard.
Posted on 12/21/14 at 10:47 pm to WildcatMike
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Go ahead and do that, tell us how that works out for you
I know the blood cells would be hypertonic in regards to the saline-free water and that cell rupture could occur but how severe would the effects be? It wouldn't be fatal if let's say you hooked up a pint bag of just water would it?
Posted on 12/21/14 at 10:51 pm to SuperSaint
Bro one saline and water IV will not 100% cure a hangover
Posted on 12/21/14 at 10:52 pm to bamarep
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cause you gotta help pay for all the ones that they have to give away
Everybody deserves the same level of healthcare, regardless of who they they are and how much effort they put into try in life!
Posted on 12/21/14 at 10:53 pm to lsu480
It does a pretty damn good job.
Posted on 12/21/14 at 10:56 pm to SuperSaint
So this thread gave me an idea. My wife is a nurse. Can you order I've fluids on the net along with all the materials needed to start an iv? If so, I'm never wasting away my Sunday on the couch ever again
Posted on 12/21/14 at 10:56 pm to SuperSaint
I'm just saying, it doesn't work THAT well. Maybe when you add B vitamins and all kinds of other shite it will but like someone else said an IV alone is about an effective as slamming a powerade.
Posted on 12/21/14 at 10:59 pm to lsu480
quote:no it's not. It takes 12-24 hours for that poweraide to do anything
but like someone else said an IV alone is about an effective as slamming a powerade
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